The Poetry's Dead Podcast

Difficult third series? F*** that!  We missed you guys and are delighted to return to your moistened ears as you go on your jog around the park that you hate to help you through another 5k. Or whatever you're up to listening to us, we're very bloody grateful. We have had a lovely few months off, so lots to fill you in on. From poems in English village pubs to bopping to The Fleadh. As fo...

Our last podcast was our 50th show lads. 50! Mad. On Monday, we have a load of poems and stories for, starting with some info about our live podcast at Swords Castle next Saturday with Wavin Words where there’s also a young poets slam for anyone between 14-18 years of age. If you know of a future world champion slam poet, bring them. Speaking of being inspired by young people, thanks to Katriona O...

We’re back not with a bang lads, but a SLAM! We were at the International Literature Festival Dublin this week as Leon hosted this year’s Slamovision with @rising.tide.events The place was packed, and the performances on the night were insane. A night where artists stepped up one-after-another to tell stories that need to be told from voices that needed to be heard. We were able to grab a chat wit...

Tristram Fane Saunders, Poetry In Liverpool And The Hillsborough Disaster This week, we look back on our incredible weekend in Liverpool hosted by Rachel and Hayley at Giz A Word (Instagram @gizaword.collective) where we met some of the city’s creatives and got a taste of what Liverpool is all about. Spoiler: Karaoke and non-stop craic  Instagram handles of the lovely folk in question: @racheywilt...

Understanding Masculinity Through Poetry Well, we give it a go anyway and thank the fecking lord we have poetry to help us. We’re share a piece from ourselves as well as work from Simon Armitage, Ursula Walshe and Hayley Gordon  Want to say a massive thank you to everyone we met in Liverpool this weekend. Everyone was so sound, what a night the Giz A Word girls Hayley and Rachel run. Enjoy the pod...

We have pretty much everything covered this week. We read a note from Albert Camus, a poem written by Easter Rising leader Padraig Pearse about his mother and we have issues pronouncing Hercule Poirot Lots of beautiful poems are snuck between those bits, but a special highlight is hearing from Jameson Newell. An American trans man living in Ireland, Jameson opens up on what it’s like living and ex...

A very special podcast this week as we invite Luain Press's Lee Sheridan to discuss his brand new anthology collection Luaina! We were delighted ourselves to be involved in the collection, not just because being published is good craic, but we are alongside some of Ireland's most talented spoken word performers and artists. After Lee attended the book launch of Sean Watmore's debut...

We go missing a week and we give you over an hours worth of bleeding poetry! We did go on a bit today, but crammed into the corners of our nonsense waffle are poems that will bring us all down to earth a little and focus on what is bloody important in our lives! Thank f*** for poetry! Kate Ireland's spoken word masterclass on sitting with her Granny kicks off the show this week. Be warned: yo...

Bloody hell do we have jam packed podcast for you this week guys. We have a love story to kick things off that happened at Mulligans pub on Poolbeg Street that ended at The Cobblestone where a woman from Peru had lost a poem gifted to her by a Welsh traveller. Just when you thought Ireland couldn't get any more fecking romantic! We share the essay published by The New York Times that moved ac...

Inspired by our conversation with Mike Garry about musicians writing poetry, we wanted to dedicate this episode to our favourite artists who also enjoy a poem or too. Leon owns a copy of  'The Lords And The New Creatures' by The Door's frontman Jim Morrison, his only poetry collection so we had to talk about him, his mad blood-drinking, pagan mentalness as well as share a poem from...

We have the honour and privelege to bring you to a very special conversation. Mike Garry is a Manchester poet who's stories and perspectives on life will give you the inspiration you didn't know you needed to live your days to the fullest. We chat to Mike about his upcoming tour around Ireland, the power of reading for the disadvantaged and his ability to speak everyone's language i...

A special episode from Poetry's Dead HQ this week as we celebrate the life and work of Dublin's poetic voice, Pat Ingoldsby We sit and listen to our beautiful community of poetry heads who share their favourite poems of Pat with us so we can share them with you. We hope this podcast does him justice and people can always come back to this show if they are looking for some warmth, a giggl...

We're feeling the spring in our step lads as the days are getting a little longer, and the poems just keep bleedin' coming! After Brendan Behan's book Confessions Of An Irish Rebel kept Ryan company on a solo trip to Belfast this week, we share a few stories and a tear-jerker poem from a man that we'd all love to share a pint with. We asked the Dublin Central Library guys if th...

As we vacate Ryan's apartment, we christen our first podcast at Dublin Central Library with Dublin spoken word artist Emmet O'Brien. We go all around the houses with this podcast, getting into the weeds of childhood, the battles of being a creative from a working class area how it feels to perform in front of a pond full of fairies. We share work from Brummy Bradley Taylor, a belter from...

We always knew deep down that Pamela Anderson was a poet, sure why did you think we had her on our walls? OK worth a try, and we're as surprised as you are that we are kicking the show off this week with not one but TWO poems from Pamela, which if we didn't know, could easily be the work of Albert Camus. I know, but listen to the podcast and see for yourself. We have a beautiful story of...

Jesus wept its been way too long lads, but we're back at you with poems, craic, probably lies about Irish history and loads of other bits and pieces to help you start the week off poetically. The community lost one its most powerful voices in January with the loss of Belfast poet Michael Longley. Known for his work helping paint pictures of peace in Northern Ireland, we shine a light on his p...

Spring is returning after a brutal winter and so are the poems! Whilst the storms and dry January pushed most the population to hide indoors and wait for a bit of sunshine to come after 5pm, we were training hard on bringing back the show with a little glow-up. We have the full show coming back on Monday 10th February, but enjoy our little teaser episode with a few poems from the lads to ease us b...

Our last episode of the year is busier than the traffic getting to Dublin Airport at Christmas After Daragh Fleming welcomes us in with a vibe-setting poem about longing and love, we step in to a whopper episode that leaves no Christmas cracker unopened, at a time of year where poetry can help us navigate the tricky waters of the festive season. We hear from Ramona, the front of office at Ryan&apo...

We don't usually say this, but for this week, stay until the end. This week, inspired by the news that Wayne Rooney writes poetry, we have a dig around to see who else that plays sport has penned a piece or two. We bring to you Alan Shearer with his poem Ambition.  On a meander around Baldoyle, Leon stumbles upon a poem painted on a pillar from Pat Boran about birds. Really nice. We are throw...

We're prowling the catwalk this week with poems to have you struttin' After we take sympathy on Keanu Reaves having his poem butchered by a simpleton, we take you into the world of fashion with Molly May O'Leary, the designated poet of the Dublin Independent Fashion Week, as she paints her words around the fabric/s of the capital. We make a very short hop then to Christine Anne Fole...

Mass is in session this week on the podcast with banger poems replacing hymns. Now we've both watched and essentially been shook by the movie Small Things Like These, we get into why that movie hits so hard and wind poetry around the experience of the film to help us understand how to navigate that tricky world of church and religion in Ireland. Before that, as Leon had spent 24 hours in Slig...

If you're here for the cheese addict, stay 'til the end ;) And if you do, your heart and soul will be filled with a myriad of hopeful poems to bring you through the change in weather as you sniffle your way through the start of winter.  We shine a light on men's mental health on the show this week, starting with the Movember campaign that poet Daragh Fleming is an ambassador for. Ev...

The title is as wide ranging as show this week guys but stick with us! Over 1 million people were on the streets of Dublin last weekend to support the runners taking on the city's marathon, and we think only 800,000 of them were there to perv over Colin Farrell! Leon ran it and has a poem for us. The next day, Ryan went into The Secret Book Store for the first time, picked up a random poetry...

For all the men over 30 who listen to the show, we apologise for the intro music. It's Halloween though, so we had to scare you a little bit and what better way to start the show than with the scariest music ever recorded, the entrance music that wrestler Kane. Poetry still to this day is hard to come by in popular culture, but The Simpsons in 1991 did something incredible. The creators took...

It took 6 months for us to mention the movie 'Dead Poet's Society' so give us a break! On the show this week, we have love, former loves, and all that life offers you in-between so settle in for 40 minutes of poetry and giggles. Leon had travelled out to Scotland for a wedding between two poets who had set each other a task of writing each other a poem during the getting-to-know you...